I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that’s all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers. – Ron White
I get e-mail from all over the world, and from lawyers and doctors and whoever – plumbers and drywall hangers. – Ron White
But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It’s like anything else. It’s a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever. – Ron White
I don’t have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I’m going to keep talking. I can’t imagine a life without doing standup. – Ron White
I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party. – Ron White
People, when they go on stage, tend to be animated and try to force things out instead of relaxing and bringing it in. – Ron White
I was desperate for new material, so anything I can write a joke about that works is in the act. No matter who it offends, or who it bothers – doesn’t matter if its something my wife hates. – Ron White
If you become famous and don’t have a live show to back it up, they’re not going to pay you any money. – Ron White
My opening acts are always really strong because I need a guy who can take on a big, big crowd. Which is not that easy to do. – Ron White
Think of The Rontourage as the Ron White Channel, where you can see us getting into trouble in all kinds of different places. – Ron White
The bulk of my fans are my age, and I’m aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it’s addicting, really. – Ron White
My uncle was a preacher, and I used to go watch him preach. He was also funny, so I’m very ‘preacher-ish’ on stage, not by intent but because that’s where I learned to talk in front of people. – Ron White
There’s no idea or concept in comedy you could do that hasn’t been attacked from some angle. But if you start leaving punchlines out so you’ll look cool, I don’t get that. But I don’t watch standup anyway, so I don’t know what they’re doing. – Ron White
If I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me. – Ron White
You can tell on-stage when a joke’s starting to lose its pop. It doesn’t mean people don’t want to hear it anymore; it means I don’t want to do it anymore. Because I want to move on to something that has a knee-jerk reaction just like you get when you tell somebody a joke that they’ve never heard. – Ron White
I begged the universe to make me a famous comedian, and it did. So I tend not to ask for any more. – Ron White
Anything I write that I consider stage-quality work, I won’t give my TV show. I put it in my live show. – Ron White
